[Remind-Fans] Help with RUN

[David F. Skoll]

On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:01:49 +0100
John Niendorf <john at jfniendorf.org> wrote:

> REM 2014-12-03 AT 13:51 RUN MSG Test aplay /home/john/MySounds/DQ.wav
> but as expected that only added the aplay command as part of the
> message text.

You can't combine RUN and MSG in the same reminder.  The simplest
solution is to create a small shell script, something like this:

#!/bin/sh
# my-alert.sh
aplay /home/john/MySounds/DQ.wav &
gxmessage "$@" &
exit 0

Then use:

REM 2014-12-03 AT 13:51 RUN /path/to/my-alert.sh Test

Regards,

David.